Fox News’ Megyn Kelly Took Jenny McCarthy To The Woodshed For Now Claiming That She’s Not Anti-Vaccine

A few days ago noted anti-vaccination crusader and former Playboy Playmate Jenny McCarthy penned an op-ed claiming to be “pro-vaccine,” despite for years having preached the evils of vaccinating children. Apparently, we’ve all been “misinterpreting” her all this time and she blamed “blatantly inaccurate blog posts” for spreading misinformation about her beliefs. Her timing couldn’t be more perfect, seeing as how case of mumps, measles and other diseases that had been eradicated are on the rise. All of this has led to a rare occasion where I find myself firmly agreeing with Fox News’ Megyn Kelly and Dana Loesch, who both think McCarthy is full of sh*t, which, of course, she is.

This is tough. I’m marrying McCarthy because Jim Carrey gave her a whole bunch of money. As for the fuck and kill, I guess I gotta fuck Megyn Kelly because she has kids, and I don’t want to make them orphans; I’m a Christian. On the other hand, I’m marrying a blond idiot, and I don’t want to discriminate or be redundant, so it’s your lucky day, Dana. You get to meet Isiah Thomas. That’s what I call my dick. Yeah, he’s undersized, but he’s also the greatest Piston of all-time.

No way, you marry Megyn Kelly. Fuck McCarthy, don’t even know who the other one is. McCarthy’s vaccination beliefs won’t matter for 30 minutes of lovemaking, and Kelly is at least really hot even if she does work for Fox News.

Counter-point: It’s their kid and they can do whatever the fuu they want. I wasn’t vaccinated as a kid and I’m healthy as SHIT.

If you don’t’ vaccinate your kid because of what a celeb says, you’re a moron. If you don’t do it because you’d rather your child get natural immunities and just don’t want them getting 5 shots of something you don’t agree with, then more power to you I say.

@Leapin_Lizards Normally I’d agree with the “do what you want” approach, but when public health is an issue, I don’t think people should be given a choice. As far as I’m concerned, two routes: make immunization mandatory, or force those that don’t immunize their kids to pay a tax to cover the costs of the outbreaks we’re starting to see.

You might be healthy as shit now, but your own health has probably benefited from the vast majority of your peers who were vaccinated. This is anecdotal, but I read a comment on a vaccine-debate article from a 21 year-old girl who caught pertussis because she was in close proximity to an anti-vaxxer and her vaccine had lost its effectiveness over time. While you can doubt the veracity of that story, it is true that even people who have chosen to be vaccinated are beginning to suffer as a result of the anti-vax crowd’s choices.

I think you’d agree with me that that’s wrong. The fact of the matter is that the public health of entire communities, even people who have chosen to get vaccinated, are being put in danger directly by those who refuse to get vaccinated. Essentially, they are forcing the consequences of their own personal choices onto others. As @Kubo said, they either need to be forced to vaccinate or bear the brunt of their impact on public health.

@Leapin_Lizards
You need to look up the term “herd immunity” and realize that not vaccinating your kids is about way more than just your kids. It puts the rest of the public at risk, just because you are a selfish, ignorant ass-clown.

I’m all for people doing what they want raising their kids, until it affects others around them.

I don’t think Leaping understands how viruses work. It’s like zombies. Sure if you want to get bit, fine, but you damn sure better lock yourself in a vault until you disintegrate because your infected corpse will get out, join other hordes, and overcome the defenses of the human survivors.

The fact that there actually people stupid enough to be against vaccines is mind boggling. I mean fine it’s one if you think that flu vaccination are not a big deal. But what kind of moron refuses vaccination(especially for their kid) for truly serious and devastating diseases?

Honestly anyone stupid enough to do this should have child services breathing down their neck at all times. That’s being dangerously idiotic. I wouldn’t be surprised if the same people let their kids juggle with stake knives

Mrs. Brasky works at a center for children diagnosed with autism. It is truly sad to hear the stories of what lengths some of the parents go to in the attempt to find a “cure”. It hard to do, but one must attempt to put themselves in the mind of the parent. They are scared shitless and are being pried on by quacks and legitimate doctors alike.

If parents are dumb enough to listen to her then that’s just natural selection at work. Yes I feel bad the kids suffer, but thank god that morons genetic code isn’t going to flourish. Because if they are dumb enough to listen to Jenny McCarthy for some science then they deserve what is coming to them.

I’ll get my science from the OTHER host of singled out thank you very much. Nerdist is quite informative.

If her son was really an some crazy hybrid special crystal ‘Indigo Child’, should she not have to defend herself like this? Or is it because she too is an Indigo Mom and we just don’t understand how awesome and advanced she is?

A few years back when she really started her anti-vax crusade, I heard a comment about her that was along the lines of, “If you call Jenny McCarthy dumb as a box of rocks, you owe the box of rocks an apology.” I always thought that line was quite appropriate when dealing with her.

For a news organization to prey on the stupidity of its viewers by espousing an anti-global warming stance and attempt to pass it off as fact simply because 1 out of 9,136 polled scientists said it didn’t exist is evil. To do it solely to further propagate a corporation first mantra makes it worse than all those other “pure hearted bastions of journalism”.
I don’t care if they (or any news org) have a “slant” but to outright lie and pass off their bullshit as fact to people who are too dumb to realize that scientific theory isn’t opinion is what I take offense to.

Yeah, it’s not like we’ve had five different studies now that show Fox News viewers aren’t just less informed than viewers of virtually every other form of news — including the goddamn Daily Show — but that they’re less informed than people who watch nothing at all.

Whoa whoa hang on a second. You and Megyn Kelly claim that McCarthy is full of shit, that’s fine. But where is the citations? Where’s the facts?

I’m asking seriously I always ignored McCarthy because in my opinion no one should listen to her give advice about anything. However if she says Bloggers misrepresented her words and you’re a blogger writing an article saying that that didn’t happen, shouldn’t you provide the evidence that support your claim? I mean if you want to put yourself above McCarthy especially, who I’m assuming used faulty evidence to prove her claims of Vaccinations being bad.

You… you feel there’s insufficient evidence presented of McCarthy’s role in leading the anti-vaccine movement? Oh, okay.

“Pediatricians, you know, take an oath, by the way, when they graduate from medical school. They really do. They take an oath to do no harm. Well harm has been done. If you take a look at the history of medicine, this lie has been told before. Do you remember when smoking was actually good for our health? Do you remember when autism was blamed on lazy mothers? We were known as refrigerator mothers, cold and uncaring to our children. Well take a look around. I believe science was wrong yet again.”

“Right before his MMR shot, I said to the doctor, I have a very bad feeling about this shot. This is the autism shot, isn’t it? And he said, ‘No, that is ridiculous. It is a mother’s desperate attempt to blame something on autism.’ And he swore at me. . . . And not soon thereafter, I noticed that change in the pictures: Boom! Soul, gone from his eyes.”

In case you don’t recognize the name “Andrew Wakefield,” to whom Jenny put pen to paper for that introduction, let me Google that name for ya:

“Andrew Jeremy Wakefield (born 1957) is a British former surgeon and medical researcher, known for his fraudulent 1998 research paper in support of the now-discredited claim that there is a link between the administration of the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine, and the appearance of autism and bowel disease.”

I mean, I could go on and on and on. It’s not like she failed to leave a massive trail of her ignorant comments over the years, including writing three books of her own on the topic!

Thanks for the definitions, so very helpful. For a moment there I thought you implied that Fox News would be the only media outlet that would slant or direct its content based on something other than the search for truth, e.g. a corporate, political, or special interest. Because, LOL. I don’t watch Fox News, so I can’t refute your now more coherently stated position.

For what it’s worth (I’m sure this will be incendiary), the constructs of ‘people’ and ‘municipalities’ actually benefit directly from the success of ‘business’.

And to top it off, and further piss off my fellow commenters – a study or five showing that respondents who watch ‘Media Outlet X’ are less well informed on certain current events, does not logically validate the statement that ‘Media Outlet X actively makes you dumber’. Nor does it logically permit anything shown on ‘Media Outlet X’ to be discredited out of hand.

No problem, when dealing with people on the internet I never assume that they are being purposefully obtuse. So the definitions were there to ensure that I fully answer any question (to the best of my ability) you might have had with the statement.
I was not implying that FOX news slanted or directed its content, I wrote that they are promoting a lie. This isn’t a gripe with “Obama is ruining our country” this is a news organization lying to its viewers that are too dumb to know better.
At no point did anyone suggest that the people and municipalities don’t actually benefit from the success of business. I believe that the statement was that a corporations first mantra is evil and or wrong.

@ OneFreeMan … Nice takedown of your strawman. FoxNews worthy really. What Otto said was “but that they’re less informed than people who watch nothing at all.” Which most emphatically DOES mean that watching FoxNews makes you dumber. In fact, it’s the only conclusion you can draw from that.